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Do you call your child "sausage"?

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Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:45

It's really annoying

No aibu I'm confident iabr

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Catsandcannedbeans · 24/06/2025 14:24

Silly sausage sometimes but mostly silly goose, or silly geese if they are both being silly. Grossy goose if they are being gross or have boogers. I don’t know why I went with goose. My mum calls us duck or ducks so maybe it’s that (yes even as adults).

My dad always calls me bug. He has only called me by my real name twice (when I got expelled from school and when I was brought home by the police as a teenager). It was a bit embarrassing when I was a teenager at parents evening. Or at school competitions when my dad was yelling “GO ON BUG!!” in his best tracksuit at the mathletes semi final against a very posh private school.

SpendingTooMuchTimeHere · 24/06/2025 14:22

i have a ‘sweet pea’ & I was a ‘bean’

itellstalez · 24/06/2025 14:21

Yes! My toddler is ‘beautiful little sausage’ and the baby is ‘cute little sausage’. My MIL also refers to them as sausage (or possum) which is purely coincidence as I don’t see her very often.

itgetsthehoseagain · 24/06/2025 14:21

Like "Sunshine".

LoveSoftAsAnEasyChair · 24/06/2025 14:20

OneLemonGuide · 24/06/2025 14:17

It’s disgusting and veganphobic. I can’t begin to imagine why anyone would call their child after the compressed flesh of murdered dead animal. It’s vile and borderline abusive.

Oh com’ on…
… and I’m plant based, and couldn’t take offence at what is meant to be a kind/fun term of endearment.

Rabbitsockpeony · 24/06/2025 14:18

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 14:05

I think I interpret sausage as passive aggressive is one thing

Like you're annoyed with someone else present and say "COME ON SAUSAGE" then stalk off

I concede that's probably reading too much into it

Yer think?

ButteredRadish · 24/06/2025 14:18

I call our puppy silly sausage and he’s not a Dachshund

LoveSoftAsAnEasyChair · 24/06/2025 14:18

I tried to look up shnooki ookams, and look what I found… unless you all know this, and I’ve been walking around with a bag on my head and cotton wool in my ears !!

Do you call your child "sausage"?
AmelieSummer25 · 24/06/2025 14:17

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 14:05

I think I interpret sausage as passive aggressive is one thing

Like you're annoyed with someone else present and say "COME ON SAUSAGE" then stalk off

I concede that's probably reading too much into it

Yeah I think you are. It's a term
of affection. I don't know why though sausage/pumpkin/pickle etc.

one used to say 'I NOT a sausage/pumpkin/pickle' 🤣🤣. Very indignant!!

OneLemonGuide · 24/06/2025 14:17

It’s disgusting and veganphobic. I can’t begin to imagine why anyone would call their child after the compressed flesh of murdered dead animal. It’s vile and borderline abusive.

StupidTrolleyThing · 24/06/2025 14:17

Sausage, chicken, chica, sunshine, sweetie, sugar, sugar-plum, chicken pie, flower, petal, honey, hunny-bunny, sweetie-pie, chicken-licken.

To name just a few !

Planesmistakenforstars · 24/06/2025 14:17

I call everyone in my life, and also every animal, sausage. Saus if I actually like them.

Katiesaidthat · 24/06/2025 14:16

ARichtGoodDram · 24/06/2025 14:15

Rarely. Poppet and Button are my two youngest.

A male HT once called me sausage first thing in the morning seconds after texting to see how his child, who he called sausage, was as she was unwell. It was in front of a full staff room.

It lead to months of meat based nicknames between staff in the school 😂

I called my boss mum right after texting my mum (and his name starts with an M). So it could have been worse...

Newusernameforthiss · 24/06/2025 14:16

Sausage
Sausage bots
Sausagetron 3000
Absolute sausages
My perfect little sausages
Sausage and beans

OP I AM YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE

ARichtGoodDram · 24/06/2025 14:15

Rarely. Poppet and Button are my two youngest.

A male HT once called me sausage first thing in the morning seconds after texting to see how his child, who he called sausage, was as she was unwell. It was in front of a full staff room.

It lead to months of meat based nicknames between staff in the school 😂

HiRen · 24/06/2025 14:14

No - but my 5yo niece calls my 80yo dad sausage. It is VERY cute 😍

CinnamonBuns67 · 24/06/2025 14:14

Yabu. I call mine sausage, pickle, muffin and when she's not behaving she's wotsit.

sugarapplelane · 24/06/2025 14:13

Ye - mine is sometimes sausage, sometimes pickle and sometimes I even remember to call her by her name…

Y2ker · 24/06/2025 14:13

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 24/06/2025 13:48

No, but I have a dachshund that I call “sausage”, and sometimes, “saus”.

I know, I know.

Me too😆

stayathomer · 24/06/2025 14:13

Have heard chicken a lot, silly sausage but never sausage on its own!

Groundhedgehogday · 24/06/2025 14:12

Yes he's a sausage. We're vegetarian, so technically he's a veggie sausage.

When his cousins are round they are all sausages.

HelpMeGetThrough · 24/06/2025 14:12

Westfacing · 24/06/2025 13:50

Sausage is a nice friendly way to address a child, or colleague!

Don't know why or its origins but it's affectionate 🌞

If a colleague called me sausage, I’d probably get sacked and more than likely arrested for my response.

TreeDudette · 24/06/2025 14:12

Flump, pumpkin, pickle, squiggle, muffin, gorgeous, my little wigglet.... not sausage though. She is a 14 year old grumpy goth now but still has to be called pumpkin on the daily.

Fringle · 24/06/2025 14:12

There was a thread a while ago where a poster objected to a child being nicknamed nut loaf. I like nut loaf. Cute.

RanchRat · 24/06/2025 14:12

Sausage Pie

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